CREDIT: KERRA SEAY
Everyone has experienced an awful match or two (or twenty) on Tinder. Now imagine a combination of all the worst people you've interacted with. That's Donald Trump.

When I was in university in Ottawa I was a casual Tinder user. I didn’t end up going on that many dates, but I used the app when I was waiting for the bus and ended up having some nice (and some not so nice) conversations with a variety of people.

There’s one conversation that sticks out from the rest.

We’ll call this guy Carl. Carl was cute; he wasn’t really my type but I could see the appeal. I decided to match with him because he was mutual friends with one of my best friends. We started talking, and while the conversation wasn’t bad I definitely didn’t have any strong feelings towards him. Actually, the conversation was a little boring.

When it came down to him asking me out on a date I declined and said that I wasn’t interested in taking this any further. I thought I was doing what was right by not leading him on when I clearly wasn’t interested anymore, like a lot of people do in order to get a free drink or meal.

It was at this point where Carl had two options: unmatch with me and put this conversation behind him OR completely lose his shit and blame me and my gender for all the world’s problems.

This wouldn’t be an interesting story if he went with the first option.

Carl ended up calling me every name in the book used to degrade women, called me a tease for refusing to meet up with him and finally, he went so far as to say that women should never have been given the right to vote, because apparently “we can’t make up our f**king minds”.

I have a reason for telling this story.

Nate Silver, founder and editor-in-chief of the political tracking website FiveThirtyEight, tweeted images about how different the election results would be if only men voted compared to if only women voted (spoiler alert: Hillary Clinton would win in a landslide if only women voted, Donald Trump if only men voted) the Internet proceeded to freak the f out.

#Repealthe19th began to trend on Twitter with people saying they wanted the 19th amendment, aka the amendment that gave women the equal right to vote, repealed.

What is happening with this fustercluck of an election?!??!?!?!!!!?

But this is where my Tinder story becomes relevant. Just like Carl, whenever Trump doesn’t get what he wants, he cries like a baby. During the second debate he whined about not getting to speak enough, even though fact-checkers found he had almost two minutes more collective time to speak than Clinton. When polls show Clinton in the lead, he claims the polls are rigged, or that the entire election is rigged (no word from Trump on whether or not the election is still rigged if he wins). When he is challenged on things he has said in the past he boldly lies and denies any responsibility for his actions. When he doesn’t get what he wants, he has a temper tantrum.

Trump is like that guy on Tinder who calls you a slut when you say no to them. He’s the guy who buys you a drink and then says you ‘owe him’ sexual favours. He’s the guy who stands too close to you on the bus and, when you ask him to please move, he scoffs and doesn’t move. He’s the guy who invites you over for a movie and starts making an uninvited move before the movie has even started. He’s the guy who sends you dick pics at 10:30 a.m. and when you ask him to stop he calls you a whore.

He’s the guy who, like Carl, blames other people for his own failures.

Please, don’t be like Carl.
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